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本帖最后由 Dracula 于 2013-4-10 21:45 编辑
洗心 撒切尔对工会下狠手的同时（支持），她对富人的政策究竟如何？ 是基本一碗水端平还是过于偏袒？看到的评论多两极分化，按左右划线没啥干货
From what I read, top income tax marginal rate came down from 83% to 40%, which can be interpreted as benefiting the rich, but can also be read as encouraging entrepreneurship. There was a big bang reform in the City, which made London one of the two global financial centers rivaling New York, and its trading volume even surpassing New York before recent financial crisis. In general, southern England, especially London benefited greatly from her reform, and these are solid Tory territory nowadays. For Northern England and Scotland, these former industrial areas suffered a lot, though not completely due to her policies, globalization played an important part as well. Conservative Party has largely been driven out of these areas. As I remember, Tories did not win a single seat in Scotland during the last general election in 2010. Post Thatcher, income distribution in Britain becomes more unequal, but her policy is only one of the contributing factor and not the determining one, technology change and globalization are more important. As to the class system, from what I read (I only visited Britain once), the country becomes more meritocratic, aristocratic connections and family background matter less. So it is a mixed picture.
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发表于 2013-4-10 19:09:33
